The Nepal Team's current community partnership agreement is to install a 15,000L rainwater catchment tank and accompanying gravity-fed rooftop rainwater catchment system and classroom ceramic water filters to our partner school to give the students access to reliable, clean water that reduces school absences due to waterborne illnesses. In addition to providing water resources, our team is committed to engaging with the students of our partner school on topics of gender, equality, and science. Our education team curates a one-day curriculum to engage with the students of the school. One such curriculum that we hold regularly is in partnership with Days For Girls, a non-profit organization committed to providing sustainable, reusable mensuration care kits so female students in rural areas can receive female anatomy education and kits that allow them to attend school when they otherwise could not due to their menstruation. As a team, we have distributed over 250 of these kits to our partner schools.

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My involvement with this team has provided me with the opportunity to put into action the principals of development and sustainable aid that I have learned about through my coursework with both the International Scholars Program and my minor. I have experienced firsthand the importance of coordinating with and unifying a team both domestically and internationally under one common goal. I have especially seen the importance of investing in community relationships and providing more than just technical engineering solutions.

 

The Nepal Team has challenged me to grow as a leader, global citizen, and engineer in more ways than I could have imagined. This experience affirmed my path towards humanitarian engineering as a vocation, and I  look forward to continuing on this path in graduate school at the University of Florida.